Having trouble connecting to AIM on iChat, adium and AIM

hi guys,
as the title states, i am having a **** of a time connecting to ichat through my wireless connection!
i recently moved and have a new ISP provider (qwest). i have contacted them regarding port forwarding/firewall settings and they assured me that there is no problem with their modem. i tested this out by connecting my macbook directly to the modem, and i was able to connect to ichat.
next, i adjusted settings on the motorola wireless router (model wr850g), turned off the firewall, port forwarding, UPnP! this didn't help at all. i contacted motorola and they assured me that it was not their product that was causing my connection problems and it was the settings on my mac.
now, i have been able to connect to ichat when using a linksys router right out the gate, so all the firewall settings that i adjusted in the system preferences was new to me. so i followed all the directions there about sharing and firewall and performed all necessary steps, and i am still having problems.
i am able to browse the internet, but things like azureus, ichat, adium, and aim are not working.
before i contact apple regarding this issue, i wanted to see if there was anybody with the same type of problem. i have searched the forums the past 2 days and could not find anything regarding this problem. please help.
the model of the qwest router is
actiontec gt-701
motorola wr850g
thank you
macbook   Mac OS X (10.4.10)  

Hi mrayatpa,
Both these devices have variation model numbers on this Page
http://portforward.com/routers.htm
It would be best if one was not doing DHCP.
Preferably the modem should have DHCP turned off then the router should be set to ask to use a Static IP to the Modem.
This will stop the computer being in two DHCP subnets that overlap and is probably the cause of the problem.
As iChat uses ports above 1024 that need to be opened or allowed this needs sorting.
Web Browsing and mail apps use ports below the 1024 mark and are not routers as such hence the reason the work no matter what the set up is (or how many subnets are involved)
8:08 PM Saturday; July 7, 2007

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